He may be a patriot for Austria, but the question is whether he is a patriot for me.

The best of all rulers is but a shadowy presence to his subjects.

Out of the crooked timber of humanity no straight thing was ever made.

In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.

No free man shall be taken or imprisoned or dispossessed or outlawed or exiled, or in any way destroyed, nor will we go upon him, nor will we send against him except by the lawful judgment of his peers or by the law of the land.

The U.S. presidency is a Tudor monarchy plus telephones.

You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.

The Revolution is made by man, but man must forge his revolutionary spirit from day to day.

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

O citizens, first acquire wealth; you can practice virtue afterward.

Every country has the government it deserves.

The more corrupt the republic, the more numerous the laws.